CALL FOR PARTICIPATION

ACM HPDC 2010 - hpdc.org

19th ACM International Symposium on
High Performance Distributed Systems

Chicago, Illinois, USA
June 20-25, 2010


Overview

The ACM International Symposium on High Performance Distributed
Computing (HPDC) is the premier venue for presenting the latest
research on the design, implementation, evaluation, and use of
parallel and distributed systems for high performance and high end
computing.  The 19th installment of HPDC will take place in the heart
of Chicago, Illinois, the third largest city in the United States and
a major technological and cultural capital located on the shore of
Lake Michigan, one of the largest freshwater lakes in the world.


Highlights

* 3 Keynotes: Guy Steele (Sun/Oracle), Randal Bryant (CMU), Robert Harrison (ORNL)

* Single track presentation of 23 full papers (25% acceptance rate) 
  and 22 posters
    Workflows, Resources and Clouds, Map Reduce and Debugging, Data
    Centers and Virtualization, Storage and I/O, Applications and
    Provenance, Communication and Scheduling, Best Papers

* Panel on expanding parallel programming beyond the usual suspects

* Industry session 
    (email hpdc2010-industry-session@presciencelab.org for participation)

* Wild and crazy ideas session 
    (email hpdc2010-wild@presciencelab.org for participation)

* 8 co-located workshops 
    Emerging Computational Methods for the Life Sciences, LSAP:
    Large-Scale System and Application Performance, MDQCS: Managing
    Data Quality for Collaborative Science, ScienceCloud: Workshop on
    Scientific Cloud Computing, CLADE: Challenges of Large
    Applications in Distributed Environments, DIDC: Data Intensive
    Distributed Computing, MAPREDUCE: Map Reduce and its Applications,
    VTDC: Virtualization Technologies for Distributed Computing

* Co-located Open Grid Forum meeting (OGF29)

* Full program available from web site (hpdc.org)


Venue, Registration, Student Travel Grants, and Sponsorship

All events will take place at the Doubletree Hotel Chicago Magnificent
Mile, located within easy walking distance of numerous downtown
Chicago attractions and Lake Michigan (including beaches), with easy
access to the entire Chicago area via subway.

Discounted registration is available through May 31.  A discounted
room rate is available through May 21.  Student travel grant
applications are being accepted.  For more information and to
register, please visit hpdc.org.

HPDC is pleased to acknowledge support or sponsorship from ACM, NSF,
Intel, Google, NVIDIA, Microsoft Research, the Computation Institute
at the University of Chicago, Argonne National Lab, the Digital
Science Center at Indiana University, the NSF Center for Autonomic
Computing at the University of Arizona, and the Department of
Electrical Engineering and Computer Science at Northwestern
University.